FACES OF GIAR

More than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students have received over $13 million in research funding from Sigma Xi’s Grants in Aid of Research (GIAR) program since 1922. For many of these students, a GIAR award is the first grant that they receive for their research, boosting their confidence and their curriculum vitae.

Read stories below from recipients about how the grants transformed their research experiences, what they were able to achieve, and where they are now.

Anna Knochel
Research discipline: Climate Science
Year awarded: Fall 2017
Education level at time of grant: Undergraduate student
Study title: Initial Quantification of Viruses Associated with Genetically Distinct Symbiodinium clades During Exposure to Thermal Stress: A Proposal for Research

Carter Clinton
Research discipline: Anthropology
Year awarded: Spring 2017
Education level at time of grant: PhD candidate
Study title: Creation of a Genomic Database from New York African Burial Ground Soil Samples